Chapter eight hundred and eighty seventh real treasure house
Just like the gold cakes in Chen Wenzhe's hands at this time, each large piece can weigh about 250 grams, which is consistent with the calculation unit of gold currency in the Han Dynasty;
Small weight, only about 15 grams.
The gold cakes unearthed from Han tombs that Chen Wenzhe saw before had obvious traces of being cut and used around them. This also shows that gold cakes in the Han Dynasty can be cut and used arbitrarily according to the needs of transactions. This proves that these gold cakes are a kind of gold cakes.
Quantity currency.
The gold coins discovered this time, in addition to gold cakes, also come in other shapes.
If cake gold is a commonly used currency, then those in other shapes are commemorative coins.
In addition to cake gold, the gold coins of the Han Dynasty also came in the form of lin toe gold, horseshoe gold, etc. These are commemorative coins!
Linzhi gold was cast in the second year of Taishi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was 95 BC.
According to the imperial edict of the second year of Taishi cited in the "Book of Han·Wudi Ji", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went out for a tour in the spring of that year. After returning to Chang'an, he issued an edict saying that he had once landed a white lin on the Western Long Plateau, and had also found a white lin in Wowa.
I saw Pegasus by the water, and gold on Mount Tai.
Therefore, based on these three things, a batch of gold coins in the shape of "Lin Zhi" and "褭菏 (pronounced niao ti)" were minted at that time to express auspiciousness.
"Lin toe" means the toe of the unicorn;
"褭菏" means horse's hoof.
Since then, there have been gold coins named "Lin Zhi" and "Horse Hoof" in the Han Dynasty.
Linzhi gold has an oval (or round) bottom with a concave bottom and a hollow back, resembling a horseshoe shape, so it is also called "horseshoe gold".
Linzhi gold and horseshoe gold are two kinds of gold currency. The difference between them is the shape of the bottom. Linzhi gold has a round bottom, and horseshoe gold has an oval bottom.
In addition, a small amount of gold "five baht" coins were minted in the Han Dynasty, which were in the shape of a round square hole with outlines on the front and back. The seal character "five baht" was written horizontally on the left and right sides of the front.
The golden prefix of the word is in the shape of a triangle.
Only 4 had been seen before, and 2 were unearthed in Xianyang, Western Shaanxi Province in 1980, and are now stored in the National Museum and the Western Shaanxi History Museum respectively.
In 1990, Yangluo Numismatic Society collected one coin, and another coin was auctioned at Shendu Chengxuan Company in 2014.
In fact, not only very few gold coins have been found, but also not many gold cakes have been found.
Judging from the unearthed situation of gold coins in the Han Dynasty, 27 locations in 14 provinces and cities are currently known to have unearthed reports.
Although it is distributed over a wide area, the number unearthed is small.
Except in 2000, at a brick factory in the northern suburbs of Chang'an, Western Shaanxi Province, 219 gold cakes were discovered at one time due to excavation for brick making.
Others are still in the tomb of King Jing Liu Sheng in Zhongshan City, with 40 and 29 gold cakes unearthed respectively. Generally, only 1 to 2 gold cakes are unearthed from Han tombs.
Some people have 4 to 6 yuan, and the most is only 25 yuan at a time.
Taking Liu Sheng's tomb as an example, although many small gold cakes were unearthed, the total weight of the 40 small gold cakes unearthed from Tomb No. 1 was only 719.4 grams, less than 3 kilograms;
The total weight of the 29 small gold cakes unearthed from Tomb No. 2 is only 438.15 grams, which is less than 2 kilograms.
Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, was the son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. He was a member of the royal family and his status was extremely prominent. However, judging from the gold coins unearthed from his tomb, the amount was only about 2 to 3 kilograms.
It can be seen that the number of gold coins unearthed in the Han Dynasty is rare.
Therefore, 75 complete gold coins of the Han Dynasty were unearthed from the tomb of Haihunhou in the Western Han Dynasty, which naturally caused a sensation.
Of course, compared to the treasures unearthed from Liu Sheng's tomb, the value of those unearthed from Haihunhou's tomb is still much lower.
It's just that there is a little less gold buried in Liu Sheng's tomb, but there are tens of thousands of other treasures!
In fact, what I have said so much is mainly to explain the value of gold cakes.
Although many of these gold cakes are not big in size, their value is indeed high.
Due to the scarcity of their surviving quantities, Han Dynasty gold cakes have become highly sought after by collectors in recent years.
In 2010, China Guardian once put up for auction an exquisite Western Han Dynasty gold cake, which was estimated to be 80,000-120,000 yuan. After the auction started, collectors raised their signs one after another, and the price continued to rise. Finally, it was sold at a high price of 190,400 yuan.
If Chen Wenzhe's current batch is handled well and he releases it to the market one by one, all of them may be sold for more than 200,000 yuan.
After all, no matter how much there is, it won't be much.
In other words, such a pile of inconspicuous gold cakes is worth more than 35 million.
"Okay, let's go back!"
"Don't keep going? I can hear the sound of the waves. The exit should be nearby!" Gao Qijing said doubtfully.
Chen Wenzhe shook his head and said: "The exit here cannot be opened. Besides, the exit here should not be easy to transport things."
He knew that when he went out from here, he would reach a reef more than ten meters high.
This side faces the ocean and is well ventilated, which makes the air here relatively dry.
Even if there was moisture, it was blown away by the wind.
Although this passage is suitable for hiding treasures, it is not the right path.
The truly correct place to hide treasures is definitely not to choose a cave more than ten meters above the ground, because it would be too difficult to transport it from the sea.
Gao Qijing did not continue talking, but followed Chen Wenzhe and returned to the cave where the gold bricks were stored.
"Carefully dig out from here. There must be a passage here. If there is any treasure, it must be hidden here!"
Looking at where Chen Wenzhe is pointing, this is the north side of the passage.
Entering the passage, the wall here falls behind you. It can be said that this is a blind spot for sight.
Unexpectedly, the correct passage turned out to be over here.
Gao Qijing and others already have great trust in Chen Wenzhe.
Since he has spoken, they will work.
It didn't take much effort, and after just ten minutes of digging, another passage was opened.
This time it was an ascending passage again. After walking only a few meters, a dry cave appeared.
When the light shone through, Chen Wenzhe saw a row of neatly arranged golden beasts at the entrance of the cave.
This is obviously a group of small golden beasts. Compared with the previous large golden beast, these ones look smaller and cuter.
The size of these little golden beasts is no more than ten centimeters, and they may be a set of toys belonging to a child from a wealthy family during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The most eye-catching thing among them is a golden dove chariot. Chen Wenzhe is very familiar with this thing, but he didn't expect it to be made of gold.
In addition to this conspicuous golden dove chariot, there are also the familiar golden rooster, golden monkey, and golden pig, which seem to be the twelve zodiac signs?
No, after careful inspection, the golden beast second from the left looks like a deer, and the animal with long horns seems to be an "antlered deer".
If you are familiar with the stone portraits of the Han Dynasty, you will know that this animal is the "Qilin" in the eyes of the Han people.
In addition to these, there is another conspicuous price comparison, and that is an elephant.
There were still elephants in the Han Dynasty, otherwise, the people of the Han Dynasty would not have made such a naive golden elephant.
There are quite a lot of these little golden beasts. After just a little counting, I counted more than twenty of them.